My colleague Scott Gutierrez spotted this doozy on the Seattle Department of Transportation blog. City officials now claim that the 2006 “Bridging the Gap” levy, the nine-year, $365 million measure voters approved in 2006 for basic transportation maintenance, was never actually supposed to ”Bridge the Gap” between the amount of cash the city had on hand for transpo issues and what […]
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President Barack Obama’s approval rating now sits at 39 percent, according to Gallup Daily Tracking poll. That’s the lowest ever for Obama. Obama, who has been battered in recent weeks by the nasty fight over raising the country’s debt ceiling and continued poor economic news, kicks off a three-day Midwestern bus tour of states that […]
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Iowa produced plenty of political headlines this weekend. Michele Bachmann won the Ames Straw Poll of GOP presidential candidates, Texas Gov. Rick Perry stole some of her Hawkeye State thunder by announcing his candidacy in South Carolina and Tim Pawlenty dropped out of the 2012 contest after disappointing third place finish in Ames. Bachmann’s strong […]
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There should be plenty to talk about Saturday in Belfair when the locals gather for the ninth annual “Taste of Hood Canal” festivities. You may not know of Belfair, a burg of several hundred residents in Mason County, about 15 miles southwest of Bremerton and not far from the furthest inland point of the Hood […]
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Initiative prompter Tim Eyman, who lives in Mukilteo, is screaming “betrayal” at King County Council members Jane Hague and Kathy Lambert for signing onto a deal that prevents deep cuts in Metro bus service. “Hague & Lambert flip-flop for lollipops — two King County Republicans cut a deal with Dow, screwing us out of our […]
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Sarah Palin says she doesn’t want to “step on anybody’s feet,” but the former half-term Alaska governor was back to upstaging announced Republican candidates Friday in Iowa. Palin managed to be in New Hampshire when Mitt Romney was announcing nearby in the Granite State, making a few calculating, deflating remarks about the ex-Massachusetts governor’s health […]
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The ongoing court battle over President Barack Obama’s federal health care overhaul could very likely become one of the key issues in Washington state’s gubernatorial election. The reason is Attorney General Rob McKenna, the GOP candidate, is among those attorneys generals suing the federal government. Democrats, including McKenna’s like 2012 opponent, Rep. Jay Inslee, will […]
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Republican presidential frontrunner ex-Gov. Mitt Romney is worth between $85 million and $264 million, according to a new financial filing with the Federal Election Commission. The “more accurate range” of Romney’s wealth is between $190 and $250 million, according to a statement from his campaign.
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After the “shellacking” they suffered in 2010, Democrats have moved back into a clear lead in Americans’ preference for who should represent them in Congress, according to a new Gallup Poll. The poll found that 51 percent those surveyed would vote for a Democratic candidate if the election were held today, 44 percent for a […]
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A second national Republican politician in as many days, a Tea Party champion this time, is embracing, defending and advocating the concept that corporations are people. First, it was presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on Thursday at the Iowa State Fair, telling a heckler, “Corporations are people, my friend.”
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